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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6247 ; Wed, 06 Jan 93 07:03:00 EST Xref: sserve comp.os.mach:2487 comp.unix.bsd:9725 comp.os.linux:21950 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!nsisrv!Pt!john From: john@Pt.hq.af.mil (John Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Subject: 386BSDSS Porting Effort -- Volunteers Keywords: BSDSS, Volunteers Message-ID: <15820@hq.hq.af.mil> Date: 8 Jan 93 18:19:20 GMT Followup-To: poster Organization: Headquarters Air Force, The Pentagon Washington, DC Lines: 47 Hi, After reading everything it seems apparent that no-one is going to be releasing the BNR2SS code for a vanilla 386 PC, so some friends and I have decided to start doing it ourselves. If I am wrong and some people are already working on a single server for the 386 please tell me and we will join your effort, otherwise...We are looking for volunteers to help us. As I see it these are the things that need to be done. o get an archive site (not CMU) o get a wd subsystem for i386 o fix the makefiles for mach o hack 386BSD 0.1 (0.2 when available) First, the archive site, as a last resort we would be willing to do this, but other people will be annoyed at milnet. The archive should place everything under RCS so that we avoid the version chaos that applies to most volunteer efforts. Next, a wd subsystem, look everyone has 386 PC's so we need to write for IDE drives on AT bus's. There are drivers in linux, 386BSD and elswhere, these "just" need to be systematized for mach. (Of course if you have good starting points for this we would be very glad to hear from you) The makefiles need overhauling so that gnu make will work. Sure the hurd people have something but it builds the hurd not BSD4.3 on top of mach. That doesn't mean we can't lean heavily on them just means we can't scoop up their stuff wholesale. Lastly, we need to hack 386BSD in the same way as was done at CMU but not under their auspices. This means we have faith that if we do it for research purposes that nothing bad will happen to us. I believe that although GNU is doing almost the same thing that the copyleft is too restrictive and that our port should have a true PD copyright. All comments, hints, flames welcome. John Ryan -- john@hq.af.mil P.S. Please try and respond by E-Mail I will summarize. Thanks in advance. -- ------- John Ryan john@hq.af.mil ..uunet!hq!john